You would not believe

How many vegetables I ate today. No, sorry, I don't have anything much more interesting to impart than that little tidbit of knowledge. However, today I think I might actually have eaten a whole serving of vegetables for dinner. That's more vegetables than I've eaten since I was eating mushed up vegetables out of a glass jar. I came down to eat dinner tonight, and (along with rice and beans, obviously), the main course was a green bean, carrot, and ground beef mixture. It was 70% green beans, 15% carrot, and 15% beef. I ate almost all of it. I didn't particularly like it, but for vegetables, it was downright tasty. Thankfully, I got insanely delicious chocolate cake for dessert, so that kind of made up for it.

My group did our "be a creeper" project today in Cartago, a city near San José. Coincidentally, Cartago is the main hubbub of activity for el día de la Virgen de Los Angeles. People walk to the church in Cartago from literally all over Costa Rica -- we saw some of them walking on the highway when we went to Isla Tortuga. The holiday is Friday and Saturday, and there are so many people walking that they close down the main streets. As such, we don't have class tomorrow. Wohoo! The church and the city were both really pretty, and we had good cheap food for lunch. But so anyway, we went to the church and wandered around, striking up conversations with random strangers about religion. (That seemed like the easiest topic we could come up with given the setting at hand.) It was interesting, but AWKWARD.

Today's Spanish lesson: Sátiro (sah-tee-ro). We were discussing pedophiles, and our group leader (a student from UCR) told us that sátiro is another word for pedophile. Men here (well, women too) use píropos, or catcalls, to people walking down the street. It's just part of the culture and you generally ignore it. However, if some guy says something offensive, they say he's a sátiro. Later, I wrote the word "pedophile," and it's a cognate in Spanish -- pedófilo. So I decided that my own personal translation of sátiro would be "creeper." So there you go -- in Linda-Spanish, now you all know how to say "creeper."